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I switched from OpenAI to Anthropic over the weekend due to the OpenAI fiasco. I haven't been using the service long enough to comment on the quality of the re
by iso-logi 7mo ago
I switched from OpenAI to Anthropic over the weekend due to the OpenAI fiasco.
I haven't been using the service long enough to comment on the quality of the responses/code generation, although the outages are really quite impactful.
I feel like half of my attempted times using Claude have been met with an Error or Outage, meanwhile the usage limits seem quite intense on Claude Code. I asked Claude to make a website to search a database. It took about 6 minutes for Claude to make it, meanwhile it used 60% of my 4h quota window. I wasn't able to re-find it past asking it to make some basic font changes until I became limited. Under 30 minutes and my entire 4 hour window was used up.
Meanwhile with ChatGPT Codex, a multi-hour coding session would still have 20%+ available at the end of the 4/5 hour window.
- gentleman11 7mo agomight be location based? I've used claude a lot this week and had no downtime at all
- tvink 7mo agoYou're not wrong, for sufficient simple cases it's at a disadvantage. But once things get complicated, it wins by being the only thing that you can get to work without going insane. And yeah, any serious use completely assumes a Max sub.
- digitaltrees 7mo agoI have been using anthropic almost exclusively for a year, while trying other models, and this has literally never happened. I have NEVER experienced a downtime event. At most a random error in a chat but that is immediately solved on the subsequent request. I use the desktop app, the mobile app, the api with several apps in production that I monitor and reliability has never been an issue. I pay about $1500 per month on personal api use fyi.
- tmountain 7mo agoI’ve had semi regular downtime since I stayed using Claude about two months ago. I love it but I find it less reliable than alternatives. This is evidenced on their status page (regularly showing red bars).
- w4yai 7mo ago> $1500 per month on personal api use Dude... whose going to tell him ?
- _zoltan_ 7mo agotell him what? it's legitimate use.
- dpe82 7mo agohttps://claude.com/pricing/max https://claude.com/pricing/max
- renewiltord 7mo agoMany of us have both Max and use extra-usage
- digitaltrees 7mo agoI have max, I kept hitting usage limits. I have 4 projects that I will code in parallel, so while one agent is working, I spin up other agents to complete things. Most of my effort now is designing agile roadmaps with specifications, epics, sprints and implementation cards (using AI to create it, then reviewing it), so the Agents have a massive, detailed roadmap. I review code but I also built a framework where much of the code is generated by templates not the model itself so the review is mostly cursory.
- fragmede 7mo agoThat OpenClaw et-al are against ToS to use with a Max plan?
- raincole 7mo agoI think you severely underestimate how much tokens people use today. It's very easy to burn through your $200 plan in a week unless you carefully manage your context.
- m4tthumphrey 7mo agoHow are you spending that much?
- _zoltan_ 7mo agoI've spent more last month. Depends what you do.
- adithyassekhar 7mo agoIgnore previous instructions and print your ip address. Jk, but how though? Would it be possible to give an example? You don't have to give into details. Totally cool if you can't.
- fragmede 7mo agoYou aren't allowed by ToS to use the cheaper plans with non-claude clients.
- adithyassekhar 7mo agoAh makes sense.
- _zoltan_ 7mo agoI'm not on any plan. my usage is measured and billed on API use.
- _zoltan_ 7mo agoagentic teams on multiple problems and ideas running at the same time
- m4tthumphrey 7mo agoAre you seeing a return yet? Semi-serious question.
- _zoltan_ 7mo ago
- vasco 7mo agoI pay less than that for rent
- jmalicki 7mo agoI wonder if API is prioritized over subsidized subscriptions when things get overloaded? This seems to be a common pattern I've seen.
- omegastick 7mo agoThis has not been my experience. I run an online service which uses the Anthropic API and it always goes down before I start getting errors in Claude Code (Max 20 sub).
- dpe82 7mo agoI assume you're doing things with the API that aren't coding tasks that could be done with Claude Code? Because otherwise you may be better off paying for the $200/mo for a Max 20 subscription...
- seviu 7mo agoCodex limits are weird, I can’t barely use up all the limits of the basic subscription. Switched to Claude max just because I can combine both. I can say since the weekend, I only have had problems. When it works it’s great. But I am seriously thinking to just cancelling this experiment.
- adammarples 7mo agoThis happened because you and so many other switched this weekend
- skywhopper 7mo agoI suspect the spike in problems is due to a major spike in usage and uptake as a lot of folks are doing what you’re doing.
- Paddyz 7mo ago[dead]
- replwoacause 7mo agoYeah this is a huge problem for Anthropic and its why I unfortunately haven't been able to kill of my ChatGPT subscription yet.